Improvement in bale-ties



D. D. COHEN. Bale-Tie.

No. 218,712. Patented Aug. 19,1879.

ATTORN EYS ILFETERS, PNOTO-UTHQGRAPMER, WASHINGTON D G DAVID D. COHEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IM PROVEMENT IN BALE-Tl ES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 218,712, dated August 19, 1879; application filed June 21, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID D. COHEN, of

New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bale-Ties; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,

specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings are representations of perspectives of my bale-tie. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same, and Fig. 4 is a perspective vlew.

My invention relates to bale-ties and it consists in the novel construction of a fasteninglug adapted for use in a buckle or upon a free end of a hoop, as hereinafter described.

The letter Aof the drawings represents my fastening lug or button. In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 it is attached to the lower bar of a buckle, and in Fig. 4 it is arranged upon a free end of the hoop. In the former cases it serves as a tongue for the buckle, while in the latter it becomes a button for receiving the slot at on the opposite end of the band shown at B, Fig. 4. This lug or button is constructed with shoulders c and c, which are raised to a sufficient height above the holding bar or band to receive a rectangular slot, to, in the opposite free end of the hoop.

When the device is connected with abuekle the union is made in the manner shown in Fig. 3; but when it is attached directly to the hoop, as shown in Fig. 4, the slot at is passed over the top of the button in the usual mannerthat is to say, the distance from the end of the shoulder c to the end of the shoulder 0 is greater than the length of the slot at; and to place the slot a over the button A the shoulder a must first enter the slot at, and the free end of the hoop must be moved toward the button A, when the slot or will pass over the projection f and over the shoulder a, and will be drawn under the latter shoulder.

It will be observed that in constructing my lug or button I have a projection, f, between the shoulders c and c.

Heretofore, when logs or buttons of a similar character have been employed in bale-ties, whenever from any cause the slot a became released from the recess under the shoulders c c, the bale became unbound. By my construction such accidents are avoided. Should the slot a from any accidental cause be raised over the shoulder c, the expansion of the bale will draw upon the tie and cause the forward end of the slot at to engage with the forward concave edge of the projection and the rear 

